Hat-fastening.



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HAT FASTENING. APPLICATION FILED OCT- 21' I916.

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Specification of Letters Patent.

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' Application filed October 27, 1916. Serial No. 128,107.

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that we, ALFRED C. GALDI and ARMANI) GALDI, both citizens of the United States, and both residing at Somerville, in the county of Middlesex and State of Massachusetts, have jointly invented a certain new and useful Improvement in Hat-Fastenings,

of which the following is a specification, reference being had to the accompanying drawmgs.

lhe object of this invention is to provide a simple, cheap and convenient form of fastening for ladies hats, which may be used in place of the exposed, and more or less dangerous, hat pins now so commonly used; which substitute of such construction that it may be concealed from view within the crown of the hat, although it may be operated from outside of the hat.

.0111? said invention is illustrated in the annexed drawings, in which Figure 1 is a plan view of the underside of a hat having attached thereto fastening devices embodying our present improvement.

Figs. 2 and 3 are, respectively, detached, and relatively enlarged, top and side views of one of said fastenings. Fig. 4 is an end view of said fastening as viewed from the line -il4: of Fig. 3. Figs. 5 and 6 are views similar to that of Fig. 4: but showing the looking or fastening pins in two of the positions which they assume as the said pins are being withdrawn from the hair of the wearer of the hat.

Our improved fastening consists essentially of a plurality of curved wires or pins that are adapted to be supported and rotated in a slotted plate which is fixedly attached to the sweat-band of the hat, or to the crown if there is no sweat band, the said pins being attached to an operating wire that may Iue operated outside of the crown of the hat.

Referring to the drawings the reference numeral 10 indicates a thin metallic or celluloid plate having extending from its opposite ends wires 1112 by means of which the plate 10 may be sewed or otherwise secured to the sweat band or crown of a hat.

Plate 10 is slotted transversely as at 13 to receive a plurality of curved pins or wires 14 whose inner ends are fixedly attached to a wire 15 which is journal'ed in plate 10 and is extended at one end to provide an operating handle, which wire is of such length that it may reach through the hat crown, and upon the end of said extension ll, preferably, fix

7 an enlarged head or knob by means of which the wire 15 and the attached curved pins 14:

may be rotated. The arrangement of the said pins in the slots 13 is such that, when the pins are not in use, their free ends may be locatedbehind the plate 10, that is to say between the said plate and the crown of the hat (see Fig. 4) but after the hat has been placed upon the head of the wearer, and it is desired to fasten the hat to the head, the pins may be rotated a full turn, in the direction of the arrow in the Figs. 4:, 5, and .6, thus causing the pins to inclose masses of the hair of the wearer of the hat. When it is desired to release the hat it is only necessary to reverse the direction of rotation of the pins until they are entirely withdrawn from the hair and again assume the position seen in Fig. 4.

Our described device may be cheaply manufactured, it may be readily applied to new or old hats, it may be conveniently used, and it effectually overcomes the puncturing of hat crowns now so common in connection with the use of ordinary pins.

Having thus described our invention, we claim as new and wish to secure by Letters Patent 1. A hat-fastening, including an arcuate plate positioned within the hat and secured thereto, an arcuate pin having a radial terminal said radial terminal being fixed at its otherwise free end to an operating member rotatably supported upon the concaved surface of said plate at the longitudinal center of the latter, said arcuate pin having its free end adapted to work in a transverse slot in said plate.

2. A hat-fastening, including an arcuate plate member positioned upon the inside of the hat and secured thereto at its longitudinal edges, and having transverse spaced slots therein, a plurality of arcuate pins having radial terminals, said radial terminals being fixed to an operating member positioned within said arcuate plate-member, said pins working in said arcuate platemember-slots, with their concaved surfaces facing the concaved surface of said arcuate plate-member.

3. A hat-fastening, including an arcuate plate-member positioned within the hat, fastening wire-members secured to the longitudinal edges of said arcuate plate-member, said wire-members being secured to the inside of the hat, and arcuate pins having their free ends Working through a plurality of transverse slots in said arcuate platemember, and having radial terminals fixed to a longitudinal actuating Wire-member rotatably supported about centrally of said 7 tudinally therethrough fastening wire-memloerssecured to the longitudinal edges of said plate and having projecting laterally divergent terminal for the retention of said Wiremembers in locked position, and arcuate pins, each having a radial terminal secured at one end to a longitudinal central operating Wire-member supported in hearings fixed to the concaved surface of said arcuate plate, said arcuate pins having their coneaved surfaces facing the corresponding surfaces of said arcuate plate.

ALFRED C. GALDI. ARMAND GALDI.

Copies of this patent may be obtained-for five cents each, by addressing the Gommissioner of Patents.

. Washington, D. G. 

